Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cynthia Basinet/Archive

21 December 2011

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On 21 November, User:Cynthia Basinet's very first edit was to add information about performer Cynthia Basinet to Santa Baby. At the time, this was a red link (in fact, the article was protected against creation due to repeated deletions of former attempts). Single purpose accounts have been adding Basinet to that article for literally years now. I reverted. Soon after, the IP 68.175.21.168 tried it. I reverted. This was followed by a second attempt by User:Cynthia Basinet.

On 16 December, User:Lambano Blosko uploads an image entitled "Cynthia Basinet.jpg" to Wikimedia Commons. That file is deleted as a copyright violation. On 18 December, User:Naruki09 resumes editing after a break of just over 5 years. Their first mainspace edit is about an album by Cynthia Basinet. They then begin an article about Basinet on their talk page. The result ends up as User:Naruki09/sandbox. Note that this page has been edited by the same IP mentioned earlier.

Meanwhile, Lambano Blosko -- which is not a person's name, incidentally -- has uploaded two more images to Commons (both copyright violations but not yet deleted) and had someone create a page in their userspace. Their first edit to that page appears to be a complete, properly formatted Wikipedia article, complete with images. I do not know if this is a copy of one of the earlier deleted versions of the page. Also editing the page is IP User:95.132.169.219.

It may be entirely coincidental that both Lambano Blosko and Naruki09 began creating pages on Basinet within hours of each other, but there is a long history of promotional editing relating to Basinet, so it seems wise to ask for a checkuser. Note that there is an open deletion discussion for Cynthia Basinet which has already resulted in editors being blocked for sockpuppetry. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 05:03, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

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Firstly I politely request that any action taken against myself/my account is held off until January 4th, 2012 as I will be on holiday for the next many days, and thus will not be able to defend myself from any claims/evidence put forth here.

Secondly, I bring forth what I said on the Cynthia Basinet deletion page here. To quote myself, "I think there has been a misunderstanding. Yes, I registered in back in 2006, and you're right, I didn't make any edits until now as back then I didn't understand the wikipedia syntax or the community. But, I'm not a "single purpose Basinet-promoting account" or person as you say. I'm just a regular university student who finds himself stuck at home recovering from an operation and thus quite bored, so I decided to start on wikipedia again. I created the Basinet page in my sandbox because she is a favourite musical artist of mine and I was surprised that she didn't have a wikipedia page. I did note that Basinet had a page on wikipedia that was deleted, I believe the reasons given were that firstly, the article was poorly written. I have tried to fix and improve that in my own article (User:Naruki09/sandbox) to make sure it as free as bias as possible. At the present moment, I'm waiting on help for someone to review my writing to ensure its up to wikipedia standards and whilst I'm waiting I've begun editing other pages." Naruki09 (talk) 11:00, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I'm going to endorse a check not because I think all three of these accounts are the same, but because I think there are other things going on., a confirmed sock of Swamilive, was blocked three days ago for adding links to Cynthia Basinet. My guess is that Lambano is part of that. As to Naruki - I'm suspicious but think it unlikely, but the behavioral evidence is enough that I think it's worth a look. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 05:28, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
 * ❌ - both to one another and to . I have no comment with regards to the IPs. Tiptoety  talk 00:07, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
 * That said, I took a look at the AfD and ran some checks related to possible vote stacking and found that is a quite  a sock of  (ie: Swamilive). As such, I have blocked the account.  Tiptoety  talk 00:17, 23 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Interesting findings. I've tagged Five Point, so I guess we're done. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 07:33, 23 December 2011 (UTC)